It's Bullfrog's take on the genre. You could say, if Wipeout is sci-fi F1, Hi-Octane is sci-fi rally. More drifting, more anarchy.

The problem of Hi-Octane was that it had nothing like a career mode or something. You could play a tournament, but there was little in the way of motivation or progress. Still great racing/shooting fun.

Is liking F-Zero more unpopular because Psygnosis (not Sony Liverpool, they will forever remain Psygnosis, and there WILL BE Colony Wars and G Police sequels one day! The cyberowl will return, dammit!) was a British studio?

I like them both about the same, if you ask me. Kind of like two great flavors of the same thing, though I think GX is way better than X and I haven't played any of the newer Wipeouts past the first PSP one.

I don't think liking F-Zero is unpopular, although I sometimes get the impression people think Wipeout is the best. Personally, I think Wipeout is nice, but there are much better games in sci-fi racing.

Yeah, I see what you mean, but I like GX better because part of what I want to see from these games is a weird futuristic world (I'll always remember that one GX track has a golden sunset hue, tons of right angles and no rails to keep you on the track) and X just looked nasty to me. Though it certainly was a creative game!

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Yeah, I see what you mean, but I like GX better because part of what I want to see from these games is a weird futuristic world (I'll always remember that one GX track has a golden sunset hue, tons of right angles and no rails to keep you on the track) and X just looked nasty to me. Though it certainly was a creative game!

I've haven't played GX, I was just comparing Wip3out to F-Zero X.
Did they have the create a track in GX, they were supposed to have in X?

No, they didn't, but what they did have made up for it (and eventually the track generator for X did come out on the 64DD). If you can manage to unlock it, I believe there is a track that randomly generated each time you play and it might be endless. Though I might be confusing the two games.

GX is one of the greatest racing games ever made, and I recommend it if you have a Wii. It really does not age very much. It also has those crazy corkscrew and half-pipe levels you liked in X, just even crazier.

F-Zero X certainly had a random track generator. I only won the final Master championship because the game created a level that had such an evil bend none of the computer controlled cars could stay on the track.

I do not believe I unlocked one on F-Zero GX although I did not play it as much as X.

@bobdebob They did, not only originally for the old Sega systems with 3D glasses (did you not know about that?) but a sort of Super Hang On 3D Classics version for the 3DS which released four days ago for 600 yen. Its absolutely balls-blinkeringly brilliant. I can't stop playing it.

If you decide to change the options so that you use the gyro sensor for 3D movement, simulate the arcade monitor and cabinet movement, then it feels uncannily like riding the old arcade versions where you sat on motorcycle to steer.

@JinTypeNoir
I thought you meant an actual 3D Hang-On (looking on the net, they did actually make one), but I remember those 3d glasses for the Master System, didn't own one though. Must be outrageously expensive on ebay.

The only two racing games I enjoyed as a kid were Mario Kart and Road Rash. Love Super Hang-On now, but I hated 2D raers for the most part. I think it was because of how the track looked as if it had the track would bend into a corner.

How so? If I can hole myself up in a room, perhaps with a few mines, maybe some teammates and watch people continuously blunder in and die then that's tactical not cheap. Perhaps they should use tactics to oust me? A few grenades perhaps or just simply ignore me and bore me out if there. But no, they keep running in desperate to kill me knowing they're most likely going to get caught in the crossfire.

How so? If I can hole myself up in a room, perhaps with a few mines, maybe some teammates and watch people continuously blunder in and die then that's tactical not cheap. Perhaps they should use tactics to oust me? A few grenades perhaps or just simply ignore me and bore me out if there. But no, they keep running in desperate to kill me knowing they're most likely going to get caught in the crossfire.